Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1908 — COURT A MODISTE’S SHOP. [ARTICLE]

COURT A MODISTE’S SHOP.

Main Point in Case is ’Whether Expensive Gown Fits Purchaser. Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 20.—Judge Henry H. Vinton’s courtroom of the Superior Court was transformed into a modiste’s shop yesterday in a case involving an expensive tailored suit which, according to the plaintiff in the case, Mrs. Bertha Brown, head waitress at the Mudlavia Springs Hotel, is a very bad mlsflt. although the defendent, Charles W. Zeigler, an Attica merchant, contends that with a few slight alterations the dress would fit perfectly. Mrs. B&wn paid for the salt In advance and when' it was delivered refused to accept it. She asked to have her money returned and, npon being refused, brought suit to recover the $l5O paid for the suit. The case was to this county on change of venue. The gown was brought into court and expert dressmakers testified to court and jury as to the merits and defects of the garment. Mrs. Brown, when on the witness stand, proved more than a match for the attorneys, who cross-examined her. She declared that the suit did not fit her in a single place. “Didn’t it touch your body anywhere?” asked Dan W. Sims, counsel for the defendant. “If I did I couldn’t tell just where,” the witness replied. She told Mr. Sims it would be impossible for her to explain just where and why the suit did not fit because he would not understand the terms. The attorney wilted. The trial is still In progress.